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Item Category 2: Historical
Record 31 of 1323

Main Title:
Ancestry : a novel / Simon Mawer.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Abacus Books, 2023.
Collation:
414 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Little, Brown, 2022.
Summary:
Almost two hundred years ago, Abraham, an illiterate urchin, scavenges on a Suffolk beach and dreams of running away to sea. Naomi, a seventeen-year-old seamstress, sits primly in a second class carriage on the train from Sussex to London and imagines a new life in the big city. George, a private soldier of the 50th Regiment of Foot, marries his Irish bride, Annie, in the cathedral in Manchester and together they face married life under arms. Now these people exist only in the bare bones of registers and census lists but they were once real enough. They lived, loved, felt joy and fear, and ultimately died. But who were they? And what indissoluble thread binds them together?
ISBN:
9780349144979 (pbk)
Dewey Class:
FICTION
Language:
English
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BRN:
3518959
Bookmark Link:
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